To be able to understand the following little anecdote, you gotta know that the pronunciation of the word Mainz and the word meins (in German) = 'mine' (in English) is in fact identical.
Allright... so that's what happened last year: My little nephew was having a train ride with my mother along the river Rhine heading North to where my parents live.
River Rhein, map 1 and 2
As the train was arriving at Mainz, located on the western side of the river Rhein (Wiesbaden is located opposite, on the estern side - see the maps), my mother said to my little nephew:
'Oh... you see that's Mainz' !
Kind of a trivial statement. Well... normally.
My nephew doubtfully and unbelievingly looked at his grandmother... trying to understand, checking out her face expression if she was serious about it, thinking again about what she had said and finally asked: 'Yours?? How can that be?? That's not possible !! How can you own all that??'
As I heard it was pretty hard work to put things right.
